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SUMMARY:2019 National Poetry Series Winners
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nThe National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition\, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry\, which ensures bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Diane Louie on Fractal Shores: Poems\, in conversation with the judge who selected her manuscript\, Sherod Santos\, Square Inch Hours: Poems. \nCarlo Rovelli\, Italian physicist\, says that “the world is not a collection of things\, it is a collection of events.” Louie thinks of prose poems as little events. They are happening and happenings. They draw on experience\, image\, metaphor\, and all the properties of language to create little worlds-in-motion\, spinning while orbiting and actively shifting our point of view. Fractal Shores: Poems marries the inquiries of science and spiritual longing to illuminate what they – and we – have in common: a desire to understand our presence in a universe that does not yield ultimate answers. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-4/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:In Every Day We Get More Illegal\, a collection of poems written during and immediately after two years on the road as United States Poet Laureate\, Juan Felipe Herrera reports back on his travels through contemporary America. Poems written in the heat of witness\, and later\, in quiet moments of reflection\, coalesce into an urgent\, trenchant\, and yet hope-filled portrait. The struggle and pain of those pushed to the edges\, the shootings and assaults and injustices of our streets\, the lethal border game that separates and divides\, and then: a shift of register\, a leap for peace and a view onto the possibility of unity. Every Day We Get More Illegal is a jolt to the conscience – filled with the multiple powers of the many voices and many textures of every day in America. \nModerated by Campbell McGrath\, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation-2/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Panel: Gulf Stream Literary Magazine Celebrates 25 Issues Online
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Natalie Satakovski\, 2020 Gulf Stream Literary Magazine editor-in-chief. \nGulf Stream Literary Magazine champions vibrant and eclectic literature and art. Based in Miami\, it publishes emerging and established writers from the USA and beyond. Join contributors Melissa Goode\, whose work has also appeared in SmokeLong Quarterly and Best Australian Short Stories; Sara McNally\, managing editor for the Columbia Poetry Review; Stacy Boe Miller\, whose most recent work can be found in Mid-American Review; Emily Mohn-Slate\, winner of the 2019 New American Poetry Prize; Fredric Sinclair\, winner of a Lambda Literary Emerging LGBTQ Writing Fellowship and a Vermont Studio Center residency; and Keith S. Wilson\, whose Field Notes on Ordinary Love was named a Best New Poetry Book of 2019 by the New York Times. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/panel-gulf-stream-literary-magazine-celebrates-25-issues-online/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Fiction,Here In Florida,Nonfiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jen Karetnick: A Reading From The Burning Where Breath Used to Be
DESCRIPTION:The Burning Where Breath Used to Be by Jen Karetnick is an all-consuming trek through a distinct sensibility – nothing escapes its notice\, and nothing fails to be fuel for her fires. These poems witness\, converse\, debate\, and reckon with the world in daring\, inventive\, and prescient ways. \nSponsored by
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jen-karetnick-a-reading-from-the-burning-where-breath-used-to-be/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Kazim Ali: A Reading From The Voice of Sheila Chandra
DESCRIPTION:Titled for the influential singer left almost voiceless by a terrible syndrome\, the poems in Kazim Ali’s The Voice of Sheila Chandra bring sweet melodies and rhythms as the voices blend and become multitudinous. There’s an honoring of not only survival\, but of persistence\, as this part research-based\, pensive collection contemplates what it takes to move forward when the unimaginable holds you back. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/kazim-ali-a-reading-from-the-voice-of-sheila-chandra/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Black Futurity: A Magnificent Anthem
DESCRIPTION:Homie: Poems is Danez Smith’s magnificent anthem about the saving grace of friendship. Rooted in the loss of one of Smith’s close friends\, this book comes out of the search for joy and intimacy within a nation where both can seem scarce and getting scarcer. In poems of rare power and generosity\, Smith acknowledges that in a country overrun by violence\, xenophobia\, and disparity\, and in a body defined by race\, queerness\, and diagnosis\, it can be hard to survive\, even harder to remember reasons for living. But then the phone lights up\, or a shout comes up to the window\, and family – blood and chosen – arrives with just the right food and some redemption. Part friendship diary\, part bright elegy\, part war cry\, Homie: Poems is the exuberant new book written for Smith and for Smith’s friends\, and for you and for yours. \nDefinition of finna\, created by author Nate Marshall: fin·na /ˈfinə/ contraction: (1) going to; intending to [rooted in African American Vernacular English] (2) eye dialect spelling of “fixing to” (3) Black possibility; Black futurity; Blackness as tomorrow. Marshall’s poems consider the brevity and disposability of Black lives and other oppressed people in our current era of emboldened white supremacy\, and the use of the Black vernacular in America’s vast reserve of racial and gendered epithets. Finna: Poems explores the erasure of peoples in the American narrative; asks how gendered language can provoke violence; and finally\, how the Black vernacular expands our notions of possibility\, giving us a new language of hope. \nModerated by Dr. William Hobbs\, English department chair at Florida Memorial University. \nSponsored by: \n \n 
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/black-futurity-a-magnificent-anthem/
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CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:2019 National Poetry Series Winners
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nThe National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition\, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry\, which ensures bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Alexandria Hall on Field Music: Poems\, in conversation with the judge who selected her manuscript\, Rosanna Warren\, So Forth: Poems. \nField Music explores the boundaries and limits of language\, place\, and the self\, as well as the complicated space between safety and danger\, intimacy and isolation\, playfulness and seriousness\, home and away. With a keen eye for the importance of place\, Hall shows us daily life in rural Vermont\, illuminating the beauty and difficulty inherent in the dichotomies of human language and experience. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-3/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Billy Collins’ new collection\, Whale Day and Other Poems\, brings together more than fifty poems and showcases his deft mixing of the playful and the serious that has made him one of our country’s most celebrated and widely read poets. Here are poems that leap with whimsy and imagination\, yet stay grounded in the familiar\, common things of everyday experience. Collins takes us for a walk with an impossibly ancient dog\, discovers the original way to eat a banana\, meets an Irish spider\, and even invites us to his own funeral. Sensitive to the wonders of being alive as well as the thrill of mortality\, Whale Day builds on and amplifies Collins’ reputation as one of America’s most interesting and durable poets. \nModerated by Campbell McGrath\, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:A U.S. Poet Laureate in Conversation
DESCRIPTION:Moderated by Campbell McGrath\, Nouns & Verbs: New and Selected Poems. \nIn Summer Snow: New Poems\, his first collection of poems since 2010\, Robert Hass further affirms his position as one of our most highly regarded living poets. Hass’s trademark careful attention to the natural world\, his subtle humor\, and the delicate but wide-ranging eye he casts on the human experience are fully on display in his masterful collection. Touching on subjects including the poignancy of loss\, the serene and resonant beauty of nature\, and the mutability of desire\, Hass exhibits his virtuosic abilities\, expansive intellect\, and tremendous readability in one of his most ambitious and formally brilliant collections to date. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-u-s-poet-laureate-in-conversation-4/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Panel: The Fight for Justice & Truth
DESCRIPTION:Grades 9 – 12 \nIntroduced by the Miami-Dade County Teen Court. \nPunching the Air\, a novel-in-verse by Ibi Zoboi and Yusef Salaam\, tells the story of Amal Shahid\, who has always been an artist and a poet. But even in a diverse art school\, he’s seen as disruptive and unmotivated by a biased system. Then one fateful night\, an altercation in a gentrifying neighborhood escalates into tragedy. “Boys just being boys” turns out to be true only when those boys are white. Suddenly\, at just 16 years old\, Amal’s bright future is upended: he is convicted of a crime he didn’t commit and sent to prison. Despair and rage almost sink him until he turns to the refuge of his words\, his art. This never should have been his story. But can he change it? \nIn Nic Stone’s Dear Justyce\, Vernell LaQuan Banks and Justyce McAllister grew up a block apart in the Southwest Atlanta neighborhood of Wynwood Heights. Years later\, though\, Justyce walks the illustrious halls of Yale University … and Quan sits behind bars at the Fulton Regional Youth Detention Center. Through a series of flashbacks\, vignettes\, and letters to Justyce – the protagonist of Dear Martin – Quan’s story takes form. Troubles at home and misunderstandings at school give rise to police encounters and tough decisions. But then there’s a dead cop and a weapon with Quan’s prints on it. What leads a bright kid down a road to a murder charge? Not even Quan is sure. \nFREE bonus download: Punching the Air Educators’ Guide \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/panel-the-fight-for-justice-truth/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Young Adult Books
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SUMMARY:Woke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice
DESCRIPTION:Grades 3 – 7 \nIntroduced by Cierra Bragan\, Miami Mom Collective \nWoke: A Young Poet’s Call to Justice is a collection of poems by Mahogany L. Browne\, Olivia Gatwood\, and Elizabeth Acevedo that reflects the joy and passion in the fight for social justice\, tackling topics from discrimination and empathy to acceptance and speaking out. The authors’ hope is to inspire kids to stay woke and become a new generation of activists. With a special foreword by Jason Reynolds. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/woke-a-young-poets-guide-to-justice/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Children's + Teens,Children’s Alley Online,Middle Grade Books,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jorie Graham: A Reading From Runaway: New Poems
DESCRIPTION:In her formidable and clairvoyant new collection Runaway\, Jorie Graham deepens her vision of our futurity. What of us will survive? Identity may be precarious\, but perhaps love is not? Keeping pace with the desperate runaway of climate change\, social disruption\, our new mass migrations\, she struggles to reimagine a habitable present – a now – in which we might endure\, wary\, undaunted\, ever-inventive\, “counting silently towards infinity.” Graham’s essential voice guides us fluently “as we pass here now into the next-on world\,” what future we have surging powerfully through these pages\, where the poet implores us “to the last be human.” \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jorie-graham-a-reading-from-runaway-new-poems/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship
DESCRIPTION:In Ariel Francisco’s Miami\, invasive lionfish are sympathetic creatures\, the beach succumbs to sea-level rise\, and “305 till I die” is a cry for help. The speakers in these hilarious and melancholy poems depict a rich and varied emotional landscape that mirrors that of the state they long to leave\, dead or alive. They imagine themselves standing on ocean garbage patches\, contemplate the crabgrass on traffic medians\, and envision the new beauty of a submerged Miami Beach: “Famed art deco replaced by fire coral / and colorful parrot fish\, neon lights / restored by pulsating swarms of moon / jellyfish\, lit up like a Saturday night.” In one moment the strange becomes familiar\, only to become strange again in the next stanza. Taking inspiration from Campbell McGrath and Richard Blanco\, among others\, Francisco’s second book of poems\, A Sinking Ship is Still a Ship\, deals with climate change and the absurdities and difficulties of being a millennial Latinx in the Sunshine State. \nModerated by Ryan Rivas\, publisher of Burrow Press; with translator José Nicolás Cabrera-Schneider. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-sinking-ship-is-still-a-ship/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Two Poets on Reaching Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Guillotine: Poems traverses desert landscapes cut through by migrants\, the grief of loss\, betrayal’s lingering scars\, the border itself – great distances in which violence and yearning find roots. Through the voices of undocumented immigrants\, border patrol agents\, and scorned lovers\, award-winning poet Eduardo C. Corral writes dramatic portraits of contradiction\, survival\, and a deeply human\, relentless interiority. With extraordinary lyric imagination\, these poems wonder about being unwanted or renounced. What do we do with unrequited love? Is it with or without it that we would waste away? \nA name for the people of Honduras\, Catrachos: Poems is a term of solidarity and resilience. In these unflinching\, riveting poems\, Roy G. Guzmán reaches across borders – between life and death and between countries – invoking the voices of the lost. Part immigration narrative\, part elegy\, and part queer coming-of-age story\, Catrachos finds its own religion in fantastic figures such as the X-Men\, pop singers\, and the “Queerodactyl\,” which is imagined in a series of poems as a dinosaur sashaying in the shadow of an oncoming comet\, insistent on surviving extinction. With exceptional energy\, humor\, and inventiveness\, Guzmán’s debut is a devastating display of lyrical and moral complexity – an introduction to an immediately captivating\, urgently needed voice. \nSponsored by: \n \nIn partnership with
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/two-poets-on-reaching-across-borders/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:2019 National Poetry Series Winners
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nThe National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition\, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry\, which ensures bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Benjamin Garcia on Thrown in the Throat\, in conversation with the judge who selected his manuscript\, Kazim Ali\, The Voice of Sheila Chandra. \nIn a sex-positive incantation that retextures what it is to write a queer life amidst troubled times\, Garcia delves with both English and Spanish into how one survives a country’s long love affair with anti-immigrant cruelty. Rendering a family working to the very end to hold each other\, he writes the kind of family you both survive and survive with. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners-2/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:A Reading: World of Wonders: In Praise of Nature
DESCRIPTION:The collection of personal essays in award-winning poet Nezhukumatathil’s World of Wonders: In Praise of Fireflies\, Whale Sharks\, and Other Astonishments – lushly illustrated by Fumi Nakamura – together form an enchanting and introspective narrative of a life’s journey buoyed by connection to animals and earth. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/a-reading-world-of-wonders-in-praise-nature/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:In Conversation: Poetry & Memoir: Walt Whitman in My Life & Rocket Fantastic
DESCRIPTION:Fellow poet-memoirists sit down to talk about their latest work. \nIn What Is the Grass: Walt Whitman in My Life\, Mark Doty effortlessly blends biography\, criticism\, and memoir in what the New York Times described as “an incisive\, personal meditation” on the Leaves of Grass author. In her collection Rocket Fantastic\, Gabrielle Calvocoressi – senior poetry editor for the Los Angeles Review of Books – blurs the real and the imaginary as she reinvents the landscape and language of the body in interconnected poems. \n  \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/in-conversation-poetry-memoir-walt-whitman-in-my-life-rocket-fantastic/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Nonfiction,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Jubi Arriola-Headley: A Reading From original kink
DESCRIPTION:In original kink\, Jubi Arriola-Headley explores kink as mythscape of promised pleasure\, lush and lustral\, kink as Godzilla’s desire for softness and the boy gone “starburst\,” kink as “the sun-soaked / surface of impossible kick\,” as “something loose enough / to dance in.” At once soliloquy\, praise song\, and injunction\, original kink divines the brutal offices and beauteous comforts of syntax\, street corners\, and superheroes as sites for Black and queer (un)becomings. Accompanied by Eve\, Isaac Newton\, and a dizzying cast of daddies\, Arriola-Headley writes into pleasure’s beyond\, crafting poems that “glutton at spring’s source\, / ever lovedrunk on / the insistent gush” of the world and create a dazzling\, multiple “we.” \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/jubi-arriola-headley-a-reading-from-original-kink/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Here In Florida,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Yusef Komunyakaa: A Reading From Night Animals
DESCRIPTION:The poems in Yusef Komunyakaa’s Night Animals climb so deeply into the being of various beasts\, from cricket to leopard to snowy owl\, that we read them with an uncanny shiver of recognition. Without ever fully abandoning his human skin\, Komunyakaa inhabits both the outer and inner lives of these creatures. The images are a brilliant match for the poems\, each of Rachel Bliss’s surreal animals populate a realm somewhere between our two species – birds with teeth\, men with antlers\, a duck wearing suspenders. Both image and word are dense and dark\, intensely focused around a kind of hunger. The poet has been startling us with his rich\, disturbing\, and important poems for many years. Night Animals extends Komunyakaa’s remarkable oeuvre. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/yusef-komunyakaa-a-reading-from-night-animals/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Deborah Paredez: A Reading From Year of the Dog: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Year of the Dog refers to the year 1970 – the Year of the Metal Dog in the lunar calendar – which was the year of the author’s birth\, the year her father prepared to deploy to Vietnam along with many other Mexican-American immigrant soldiers\, and a year of tremendous upheaval across the United States. Images from iconic photographs and her father’s snapshots are incorporated\, fragmented\, scrutinized\, and reconstructed throughout the collection as Deborah Paredez recalls untold stories from a war that changed her family and the nation. In poems and lamentations that evoke Hecuba\, the mythic figure so consumed by grief over the atrocities of war that she was transformed into a howling dog\, and La Llorona\, the weeping woman in Mexican folklore who haunts the riverbanks in mourning and threatens to disturb the complicity of those living in the present\, Paredez recontextualizes the Vietnam era\, from the arrest of Angela Davis to the haunting image of Mary Ann Vecchio at the Kent State Massacre\, never forgetting the outcry and outrage that women’s voices have carried across time. \nModerated by poet Leslie Sainz. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/deborah-paredez-a-reading-from-year-of-the-dog-poems/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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UID:5641-1605466800-1605553199@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:2019 National Poetry Series Winners
DESCRIPTION:Special introduction by Daniel Halpern\, founder of HarperCollins imprint Ecco and the National Poetry Series. \nThe National Poetry Series was established in 1978 to recognize and promote excellence in contemporary poetry by ensuring the publication of five books of poetry annually through participating publishers. In addition\, the National Poetry Series has partnered with Miami Book Fair to award the Paz Prize in Poetry\, which ensures bilingual publication for a book of poems written in Spanish. This conversation features Heid E. Erdrich on Little Big Bully\, in conversation with the judge who selected her manuscript\, Amy Gerstler\, Scattered at Sea. \nLittle Big Bully offers personal myth\, American and Native American contexts\, and allegories driven by women’s resistance to narcissists\, stalkers\, and harassers. The past for Indigenous people\, ecosystem collapse from near-extinction of bison\, and the present epidemic of missing and murdered Indigenous women underlie these poems. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/2019-national-poetry-series-winners/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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UID:9949-1605459600-1605465000@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:An Evening With Margaret Atwood & Pamela Paul
DESCRIPTION:Event starts Sunday\, November 15 at 5 p.m. \nBook purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. \nIn Dearly\, Margaret Atwood\, a novelist who happens to be one of our most significant contemporary poets\, addresses themes such as love\, loss\, the passage of time\, the nature of nature – and zombies. Steering the conversation will be New York Times Book Review editor Pamela Paul\, author of six books\, including How to Raise a Reader and My Life with Bob. \nBook purchase required for admittance to this program; click here to purchase. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/an-evening-with-margaret-atwood-pamela-paul/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Live Streams,Poetry
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SUMMARY:Three Debut Poets on Family\, Love\, and Race
DESCRIPTION:Tommye Blount’s Fantasia for the Man in Blue orchestrates a chorus of distinct\, unforgettable voices that speak to the experience of the black\, queer body as a site of desire and violence. The speaker in Ricardo Alberto Maldonado’s The Life Assignment sorts through relationships\, trying to discern what was healthy from what was exploitative\, and asks: When tenderness is in short supply\, how can one protect oneself? How can one find home? In Horsepower: Poems\, Joy Priest explores the memories of her speaker – a mixed-race child being raised by her white supremacist grandfather in the shadow of Churchill Downs\, Kentucky’s world-famous horseracing track – before arriving in a state of self-awareness to confront the personal and political landscape of a harshly segregated Louisville. \nModerated by John King\, founder of The Drunken Odyssey: A Podcast About the Writing Life. \nSponsored by: \n \nIn partnership with:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/three-debut-poets-on-family-love-and-race/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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UID:5571-1605380460-1605466740@www.miamibookfaironline.com
SUMMARY:On Joy\, History\, and the Occasional Poem
DESCRIPTION:Love Child’s Hotbed of Occasional Poetry: Poems & Artifacts by Nikky Finney is a twenty-first-century paean to the sterling love songs humming through four hundred years of Black American life. Be Holding: A Poem by Ross Gay connects the famously impossible move by legendary basketball player Julius Erving – known as Dr. J – during the 1980 NBA Finals against the Los Angeles Lakers to pick-up basketball and the flying Igbo and the Middle Passage\, to photography and surveillance and state violence\, to music and personal histories of flight and familial love. \nModerated by Gabrielle Calvocoressi\, author of Rocket Fantastic: Poems. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/on-joy-history-and-the-occasional-poem/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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SUMMARY:Carolyn Forché: A Reading From In the Lateness of the World: Poems
DESCRIPTION:Carolyn Forché’s first new collection in 17 years\, In the Lateness of the World: Poems is a tenebrous book of crossings\, of migrations across oceans and borders but also between the present and the past\, life and death. The poems call to the reader from the end of the world where they are sifting through the aftermath of history. Forché envisions a place where “you could see everything at once … every moment you have lived or place you have been.” The world here seems to be steadily vanishing\, but in the moments before the uncertain end\, an illumination arrives and “there is nothing that cannot be seen.” In the Lateness of the World: Poems is a revelation from one of the finest poets writing today. \nSponsored by:
URL:https://www.miamibookfaironline.com/event/carolyn-forche-a-reading-from-in-the-lateness-of-the-world-poems/
LOCATION:On Demand
CATEGORIES:Poetry
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